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Professor Chris Field

Professor Chris Field, author of the 2007 landmark report on climate change, has warned that global warming over the next century could be much worse than previously predicted.  He said the Interdepartmental Panel on Climate Change had underestimated the level of increase in greenhouse gas emissions between 2000 and 2007.   The 2007 report had previously estimated increases in temperature of between 1.1c and 6.4c over the next century.  The Professor said the impact on temperatures of the increase in emissions was unclear but warming was likely to increase at a much higher pace bringing more environmental damage than previously thought.

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We see the warning as a wake-up call given the sense of complacency on the issue given the UK has experienced its coldest winter for many years following 2007 being the coolest year globally this century.  Maybe the unwelcome vision of our world in 2100 left to us by ‘The Emperor’  and included in the conclusion of our tale is not so far fetched!

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